A Change Would Be Good
...While some cultures have already accepted homosexual issues and individuals, some still thinks that even talking about homosexuality is weird. While some countries recognize same sex marriage, some countries give death penalty to the people who are homosexual. We live in such a world that if you live in one continent you are accused of your sexual choice, but in the other continent you are not. For example if you are a gay person and Dutch, you are very lucky, because you have the right to marry someone, adopt a child but, if you are a gay person and Nigerian or Saudi Arabian, you will be executed as soon as that is proved. Of course, these countries are too extreme to each other. In this paper, I am going to discuss two different countries in terms of attitudes towards homosexuals: the USA (the center of the cultures from all around the world) and Turkey (the mixture of east and west culture). This essay is going to show a whole picture of homosexual people in two countries in terms of general public opinion, family attitudes and attitudes towards homosexuals who want to work.
Firstly I will give information briefly about the general public opinion on homosexuality in Turkey. In general, people have usual kind of prejudices against non-heterosexuality and non-heterosexual people. Homosexuality is perceived as a perversion, at least an illness, in general. Some suppose that homosexuality can be a sexual fantasy especially for the upper class, not a sexual identity. They are a few, like just a kind of "lunatic in the neighborhood". Your butcher, the nurse in the hospital or "normal" looking neighbor cannot be a "faggot" or lesbian, but a fashion designer or a writer -people who are far away may. For the extreme rightist people, homosexuals should be removed from society by expelling or in more bloody ways. For some people, they are also human and they can...
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